Nick and I left the island today and are now at his house in the Twin Cities. We left at 4pm, had dinner at The 502 (the restaurant attached to Chase on the Lake in Walker), and then continued south while Mom and Dad returned to the island for one more day.

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Day three of vacation: very satisfactory. :)

I got up at 9:30am instead of 11:30am, made myself a nice breakfast (scrambled eggs, English muffins, a clementine, tea), and then spent the day mostly reading (in the cabin and down on the dock), working desultorily on a puzzle, and doing some dinner prep and cleanup.

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It turns out that my family changed the plan and then I think my mom and my brother both assumed the other had told me of the new itinerary, when in fact I had not been informed at all.

In summary, rather than Nick meeting me at the airport and me spending an afternoon and night in Minneapolis, Mom met me at the airport and we drove straight up to ( Read more... )

Today we disappeared a tree. :D

In completely unrelated news, we're now running yet another load of laundry, because pine sap is sticky like you wouldn't believe. *wry*

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On Saturday we went for a walk and a tiny moth flew into the back of my throat and I reflexively swallowed before I could spit it out and it tasted like dust and despair.

That is all.

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Thursday was another slow day of mostly doing nothing, though I did pitch in to help Mom and Dad haul a tabletop up from the dock and then figure out how best to get it to fasten securely to our existing (too small for large family dinners) table. I ran a load of laundry, and then we left just past 4pm to run a couple errands and drive to Walker to ( Read more... )

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Today's to-dos:

-breakfast, lunch, and dinner at appropriate times; clean up afterwards

-make initial post in weekly child psych discussion forum once Prof. S opens it ETA: Prof S. did not open the forum :(

-read paper for child psych annotation project, maybe start outlining/writing response ETA: wrote and submitted the whole thing \o/

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